Luke Plunkett

Hey, RoboCop, you've got mechanical arms and a gun in your leg. Why'd you have to go and smash a perfectly good arcade game?

And it was pretty good. If you couldn't make it out beneath all the broken glass and criminal hair, it's Sly Spy, Data East's 1989 side-scroller that took more than a few liberties with action movie and James Bond likenesses.

Middling action game it my have been, it also featured some amazing pixel art, like a shoot-out in the Lincoln Memorial and an outro that looks like it fell straight out of the latest series of Archer.